· Private foundation
Alfred N Watson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY TRINITY | $6,000 |
| OUR SISTERS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS | $1,000 |
| OCRA | $1,000 |
| WOODLEY HOUSE | $1,000 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT | $1,000 |
| LEVINE SCHOOL FUND | $1,000 |
| ST JOHN'S CHURCH | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL VET SERVICES | $1,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NRDA | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| GEORGETOWN MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| EASTER SEALS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
70 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +98%- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +40%
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- WRWESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -12%
- LTLARGER THAN LIFE USA INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- EDEASTERSEALS DC MD VAone grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The mission of leadingage is to be the trusted voice for aging. our 6,000+ members and partners include nonprofit organizations representing the entire field of aging services, 38 state associations, hundreds of businesses, consumer…
How this is measured
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds PINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WOODLEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds EDMUND BURKE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds MANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip Snyder Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alfred N Watson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred N Watson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
- Westport Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Pine Cobble School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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